Re: [suse-sparc] SILO:Booting SunOS

From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk@suse.de)
Date: Thu Feb 08 2001 - 23:17:16 PST

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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 08:17:16 +0100
From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Message-ID: <20010209081716.A10194@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] SILO:Booting SunOS

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 09, Matthias Landwehr wrote:

> Hello everybody on the list,
> i've a SparcStation IPC (sun4c arch) with three operating systems on it:
> Debian Linux, SuSE and SunOS.
> Dual booting the two Linux OS with SILO works fine.
> SILO resides on /dev/sda1 (SCSI Disk 1 with ID 1, LUN 0)
> SunOS 4.1.3 Kernel vmunix resides on /dev/sdb1 (SCSI Disk 2 with ID 3,
> LUN 0)
> My OpenBoot Version is 2.4
> The following error occur:
>
> When i type
> boot /sbus/esp/sd@1,0
>
> on the OpenBoot Prompt, then SILO comes up
> I wish to boot SunOS and type on the SILO prompt
> /sbus/esp@0,80000/sd@3,0;/vmunix

Hm, the old SPARCs switched id0 and id3 in PROM. You should try
/sbus/esp@0,80000/sd@0,0;/vmunix

Thorsten

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